Journalist Kelefa Sanneh cites Senior Research Fellow Hanna Garth's recent book “Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement” in an article in The New Yorker. Kelefa examines why many food justice initiatives have had only limited success in addressing food inequality. In his search for answers, he considers an observation Hanna makes about the work of food activists in low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles. These efforts, Hanna notes, “could actually be worse than charity.“

Hanna Garth, currently a Senior Research Fellow at the MPIWG, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of food. In her recent project, “To Build a Home: Placemaking and Everyday Life in South Central Los Angeles,“ she examines what it means to build a home in the context of urban poverty.